Solution:1. Make sure that in your Adobe Acrobat or whatever Adobe you are using under Adobe>Preferences>Internet "Display PDF in browser using:..." is NOT active.2. Quit Safari3. Open Finder: Macintosh HD>Library>Internet Plug-Ins, and delete any plugins related to pdf. At least two of them: AdobePDFViewer.plugin and PDF Browser Plugin.plugin4. Open Safari and ENJOY.

Hmm I thought I had already done this step and was just living with the black screens, but I tried again and now PDFs are showing up correctly.

thank you, thank you...for the suggestion to remove the internet plug-in. this worked! had tried lots of other suggestions. problem cropped up after a recent adobe update. perhaps something changed at that point. anyway, lots of time wasted and boy am i glad to have read the plug-in suggestions.

I tried removing the PI's but didn't work until I re-booted. Might have worked on a restart but as an ex windows user I still go for broke! When I bought this new machine last October I spent a fascinating 1 1/2 hours with a nice guy with English as a 5th language removing, re-installing, generally achieving nothing. When he decided he needed to call in his supervisor I called quits and just used Firefox from the "Develop" menu item. It still bugged the **** out of me until today I decided to see how many others might have had the problem. Nice to see I wasn't alone!!! I always thought I must have cocked up the migration from my old iMac.

I've been having this problem for some time, Safari won't use preview to display PDF's on a page, it uses Quicktime and creates an image, not a file.

I'm using Safari 5.1.1 and Lion 10.7.2. I followed the directions given by Lemon Tree above and restarted both the computer and Safari to no avail. I've tried 2 different websites that only offer to view a bill using an image (no download option) and Quicktime displays the first document page as an image with no way to send it to Preview or any other reader.

Sorry that this solution did not work for me, but I hope there's one out there.

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